His crusades against crime and quality-of-life annoyances served his larger ambition, which was to root out the assumptions that had built New York into a welfare city-state always at the edge of crisis.

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"Indeed rather than being too late, now is actually a necessary time to act, before even larger numbers begin to anchor and before anchoring takes firm root globally, " he said.

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First, at this moment of critical redefinition, you have to root your strategy for Iraq in the context of the larger, truly titanic and global conflict being waged against us by a totalitarian ideology.

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